6.2 Filtering Posts

Filters can be applied to narrow down a large amount of data. You can filter posts by many types of parameters, for example: Surveys, Categories, Status, Date Ranges, and Location.

Survey and Category filters are located within the "Filters" modal on the top global search bar, which allows you to

  • sort posts by

    • Date of creation

    • Post date i.e date when it was assigned to a survey

    • Date updated

  • filter reports by

    • Saved searches

      • By default, every deployment has a set of three featured Saved Searches(read more in the Saved searches section of this manual) from which you can view posts on your deployment, from the search filter.These include:-

        • Published Posts: Lists all posts that have been made public on your deployment(i.e can be viewed by registered/non registered users on your deployment.

        • Unknown Posts: Lists all messages received from SMS, Email and Twitter, that have not been assigned to a survey i.e are unstructured

        • My posts: Lists all posts created by you as a user

    • Status

      • Published: Posts that can be seen by both logged in and non logged in users

      • Under review: Posts that can only be seen by logged in users with adequate permissions

      • Archived: Posts that have been deemed to be irrelevant and removed from your active view

    • Other filters include Surveys, Categories, Data source, Date range, Location or any other user determined parameters